Chapter 176 Riding Alone Into the City

"Okay, the sheriff agrees!"

Yao Lingkun's face was slightly surprised, he didn't expect that the newly appointed sheriff actually agreed.

"In this case, please invite the county guard to enter the city." Yao Lingkun said.

Liu Ye turned his head and said, "Junyi, you lead your troops to camp outside the city."

Zhang Jah hesitated and said: "The county guard, it's not that the last general talks too much, it's just that he should be more careful in everything."

Liu Ye nodded. The reason why he dared to agree to Yao Lingkun's invitation was because he was a boxing master himself. Even if he was trapped in a tight siege, he might not be able to fight alone. As the saying goes, people with high skills are bold, if Liu Ye was a feeble scholar with no strength to restrain a chicken, he would definitely not dare to go in.

The gate of the city wall opened slowly, and Liu Ye rode his horse into the city slowly, only to see two rows of Qiang warriors around him, looking at him with both surprise and resentment, but Liu Ye didn't care, just rode his horse forward.

"I didn't expect that there were such good men as county guards among the Han people. Yao Lingkun admired them."

Yao Lingkun came towards him, clasped his fists, Liu Ye got off his horse, and the Qiang attendant beside Yao Lingkun stepped forward and took the horse in his hand.

Liu Ye cut to the chase and asked, "Where are the officials sent by the county magistrate Wang Shu being detained?"

Yao Lingkun was taken aback for a moment, he didn't expect Liu Ye to act so vigorously: "Please follow me, the county guard."

Liu Ye and Yao Lingkun walked side by side, and came to a house with no windows open. The Qiang attendants stepped forward to open the door, and the beam of light shone into the deep house immediately.

A person in the room lay motionless, as if he wanted to die, the sun shone on his pale face, and his body moved a few times.

"Hey, wake up, the governor of Tianshui is here."

"Sheriff?"

The person in the room suddenly jumped up, dressed in a mess, when he saw Liu Ye in the red robe, he rushed out and fell to the ground with a thump.

"Sheriff! You are here."

Liu Ye frowned slightly, and looked at the person in front of him: "Are you an official under the county magistrate Wang Shu?"

"Exactly, the villain Fan Qin."

"Wang Shu ordered you to collect taxes from Yao Lingkun's tribe. What did you say?"

Fan Qin was stunned, and said cautiously: "Little man, what the villain said is 15 taxes."

"What! You clearly said ten dollars per mu tax."

"That's right, if he said one tax per 15, would we still resist the imperial court?"

As soon as Fan Qin opened his mouth, all the Qiang people around him looked angry and stretched out their hands to criticize. Fan Qin was so frightened that he hurriedly leaned against Liu Ye.

The light in Liu Ye's eyes flashed slightly, and he said in a low voice: "Don't worry, this county guard is also a Han Chinese, so he will naturally make decisions for the Han people."

Fan Qin heaved a sigh of relief, and said in a low voice, "Governor, the war in the northwest was caused by the Qiang people. The county guard kindly gave the whole county a tax of 15 yuan. These Qiang people should be entitled to a tax of 10 kuai per mu."

Liu Ye smiled and nodded: "Okay, okay."

Fan Qin heaved a sigh of relief when he heard the sheriff say hello. Fortunately, the county guard is here, otherwise I don't know how many days I will be trapped by the Qiang people.

Fan Qin said with a smile: "Junior, when are you?"

Pooh!

It was the sound of sharp blades piercing into flesh. Fan Qin looked down and saw a long sword piercing his chest. He looked up along the spine of the sword and saw that the one holding the hilt was none other than Liu Ye's. palm.

"Sheriff, you?"

Liu Ye snorted coldly, kicked Fan Qin to the ground, looked around, and said loudly, "I ordered that the entire county should be taxed at 15 yuan. Fan Qin, an official in Chengji County, changed his order without authorization, so I will kill him!"

After saying that, Liu Ye pulled out the sword, Fan Qin's body twitched for a while, blood kept vomiting from his mouth, and he didn't move for a while.

After killing Fan Qin, Liu Ye said without changing his face: "Under the rule of this county, Han people and Qiang people are treated equally. As long as they don't follow Beigong Boyu's rebellion and pay taxes with peace of mind, they are all Han people."

After saying this, Liu Ye paused: "Your tax will be changed to 15 taxes."

After a while of silence, deafening cheers erupted all around.

"The county guard is kind, and we all accept his kindness."

"In the future, we Qiang people will also be able to pay a tax of 15 yuan? We can also bathe in the grace of the emperor!"

Yao Lingkun laughed loudly, stepped forward, held Liu Ye's hand, his eyes were shining brightly.

"If the sheriff doesn't dislike him, Yao Lingkun wants to make friends with the sheriff."

Liu Ye raised his arms and clasped his palms tightly together.

"To make Patriarch Yao a friend, this county guard is very happy."

"The sheriff please follow me!"

Liu Ye and Yao Lingkun walked side by side, followed by a group of Qiang servants, and walked into the hall with wide strides.

Yao Lingkun asked Liu Ye to sit at the head. A Qiang attendant had already entered the hall and brought up plates of mutton and dirty wine.

Yao Lingkun smiled and clapped his hands twice.

Liu Ye looked at Yao Lingkun, wondering what kind of tricks he was going to play, and at this moment eight Qiang girls walked in slowly, wearing short sleeves, showing slender arms and smooth belly, very revealing clothes, very similar to the maids of the Central Plains. different.

The wealthy people in the Central Plains appreciate the dancing of beauties, and they usually dance with light gauze, at least there is a layer of cover. These Qiang women are quite bold, but Liu Ye can be considered to have seen the world.

As the Qiang people's rough music sounded, eight Qiang women danced lightly, showing their seductive and slender figures in the lobby. The leading Qiang woman even threw a wink at Liu Ye from time to time, and Liu Ye It is calm and unaffected.

Yao Lingkun laughed loudly and said, "Governor, it seems that the women in my clan like you very much."

Liu Ye smiled, and then said: "There has been no news from a certain soldier for a long time, I'm afraid they are anxious to wait, how about asking the patriarch to send someone to interrogate him?"

Yao Lingkun nodded: "It's easy to talk about." After finishing speaking, he waved his hand and gave instructions to an attendant, and the attendant walked out.

After a lot of fun, Yao Lingkun personally took people to see Liu Ye off.

"The sheriff rode into the city alone today to uphold justice for us. Yao Lingkun is really grateful. On behalf of the whole family, I would like to thank the sheriff for his great kindness."

"It's easy to say, if Patriarch Yao has anything to do in the future, he can just send someone to Ji County to find me. The governor of this county still says that under a certain rule, Han people and Qiang people are treated equally."

Before Yao Lingkun sent Liu Ye to the gate of the village, the two waved goodbye. Liu Ye galloped out of the gate alone, only to see Zhang Jai and Guan Hai waiting with hundreds of riders. Seeing Liu Ye galloping out of the gate, they greeted him immediately up.

"Is the sheriff safe and sound?"

Liu Ye nodded: "Well, I found out that the county officials under Wang Shu's command changed their orders without authorization, and changed the tax from 15 yuan to 10 yuan per mu tax. But now that it's all cleared up, I'll go back later."

Liu Zishuai's flag rose from the ground, and the smoke and dust of the three thousand paces were arrogant, like dark clouds rolling in, and disappeared without a trace from the front of the city.